City of Columbia, IL
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2020-08-17
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 79 Officers and Employees
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Article X City Attorney
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 14 City Council
- Ch 18 City Plan
- Ch 25 Discrimination
- Ch 31 Emergency Services
- Ch 35 Ethics
- Ch 42 Finances
- Ch 53 Identity Theft Prevention Program
- Ch 79 Officers and Employees
- Ch 79 Art X City Attorney
- § 79-10.1 Creation of office; appointment.
- § 79-10.2 Suits and actions.
- § 79-10.3 Judgments, decrees and orders.
- § 79-10.4 Advice.
- § 79-10.5 Special assessments.
- § 79-10.6 Ordinances and documents.
- § 79-10.7 Additional counsel.
- Ch 85 Personnel Code
- Ch 90 Purchasing
- Ch 96 Records
- Ch 102 Wards
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 105 Adult Uses
- Ch 110 Alarm Systems
- Ch 120 Animals
- Ch 125 Architectural Review
- Ch 132 Bed-And-Breakfast Establishments
- Ch 138 Building Construction
- Ch 142 Business Licensing
- Ch 144 Cannabis
- Ch 146 Driveways
- Ch 154 Electrical Code
- Ch 160 Excavations
- Ch 165 Fees and Charges
- Ch 170 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 175 Foreign Fire Insurance Companies
- Ch 187 Historic Preservation
- Ch 194 Housing Code
- Ch 202 Industrial Standards
- Ch 209 Junk Dealers
- Ch 223 Liquor Code
- Ch 230 Massage Establishments
- Ch 235 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 244 Noise
- Ch 249 Nuisances
- Ch 256 Offenses
- Ch 260 Oil and Gas Wells
- Ch 267 Parks and Public Areas
- Ch 271 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 275 Play Vehicles
- Ch 278 Plumbing Code
- Ch 280 Property Maintenance
- Ch 288 Raffles
- Ch 302 Signs and Awnings
- Ch 308 Solid Waste
- Ch 313 Storage Trailers
- Ch 319 Stormwater Management
- Ch 324 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 330 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 335 Taxation
- Ch 340 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 350 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 360 Water and Sewers
- Ch 368 Weeds
- Ch 377 Yard Sales
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
There is created the office of City Attorney, an executive office
of the City. The City Attorney shall be appointed by the Mayor and
with the advice and consent of the City Council.
The City Attorney shall prosecute or defend any and all suits
or actions at law or equity to which the City may be a party, or in
which it may be interested, or which may be brought against, or by,
any officer of the City on behalf of the City, or in the capacity
of such person as an officer of the City.
It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to see to the full
enforcement of all judgments, or decrees rendered or entered in favor
of the City, and of all similar interlocutory orders.
The City Attorney shall be the legal advisor of the City, and
shall render advice on all legal questions affecting the City whenever
requested to do so by any City official. Upon request by the Mayor
or by the City Council, he shall reduce any such opinion to writing.
It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to see to the completion
of all special assessment proceedings and condemnation proceedings.
It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to draft or supervise
the phraseology of any contract, lease or other document or instrument
to which the City may be a party; and upon request by the Council,
to draft ordinances or resolutions covering any subjects within the
power of the City.
[Amended 1997 by Ord. No. 1604]
The City Council may retain or authorize the employment of other
counsel to give advice or render service to the City.
